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The Great American Lock-Up
We Are All Prisoners Now
By Paul Craig Roberts
Ron Paul in The Situation Room w/ Wolf Blitzer 12-27-07 (Video)
Listen up, eye rollers!
People who rely on broadcast media and/or government education to formulate their perceptions often roll their eyes in exasperation and conspiracy-nut-contempt when exposed to reliable information that challenges their beliefs. For the majority, easy prey for predatory propagandists and history revisionists, the possibility that they have been blatantly deceived by their own government is unthinkable, despite the monstrous evidence of pandemic corruption. Denial is the proverbial mental comfort zone; it is an easy refuge. It requires nothing! Schopenhauer said: "All truth goes through three stages, first it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally it is accepted as self-evident."
NEOCONS AND THE WEST TOO QUICK TO BLAME ‘AL QAEDA’ AND ‘TERRORISTS’ FOR BHUTTO ASSASSINATION.
Main suspects are warlords and security forces
The main suspects in the assassination are the foreign and Pakistani Islamist militants who saw Ms Bhutto as a Westernised heretic and an American stooge, and had repeatedly threatened to kill her.
But fingers will also be pointed at the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, (ISI) which has had close ties to the Islamists since the 1970s and has been used by successive Pakistani leaders to suppress political opposition.
Flashback - Bhutto accuses Pakistan's spy agency of meddling
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto accused Pakistan's military intelligence Thursday of pressuring candidates from her party to drop out of next month's parliamentary elections and urged officials to crack down on such harassment.
Bhutto, a two-time former prime minister who recently returned from years of living in exile, told reporters during a campaign stop her party has evidence of interference. (12-20-07)
The "North American Consciousness" and "European Identity"
Efforts underway in America to create social atmosphere favorable to North American Integration mirror early EU plans
Population, Religion and Sex Education
The Population Bomb (Part 3)
The Voice of the White House
“The Pakis could nuke India but our media would be far more interested in babbling about the political candidates to report it. I have never in all my life seen such a slate of useless pieces of shit but the media loves to keep the public’s eye on what this one is doing or what that one just said. Keeps us from seeing what the criminally stupid White House is doing, or not doing.
Intel Agencies to Withhold Contract Info from Public Database
FBI to put criminals, security issues up in digital billboard lights
The FBI today said it wants to install 150 digital billboards in 20 major U.S. cities in the next few weeks to show fugitive mug shots, missing people and high-priority security messages from the big bureau.
Middle East censors seek to limit Web access
Report: Turkey using drones in N. Iraq with help of Israeli crews
Personnel from Israel's Aerospace Industries are assisting the Turkish army in activating Israeli-made unmanned aircrafts for use in military operations in Kurdish northern Iraq, Turkish sources were quoted as saying in a report to be published Thursday in the Turkish Daily News.
9/11 Commission Report: Second Edition
Credit Crunch vs. Central Banks - You Lose
Ron Paul and the Economics of Slavery
By Bob Murphy
Agents of Disinformation, The Smearing of Dr. Ron Paul
By Anthony Wade
And So This Was Christmas
By Eileen Fleming
We are living George Orwell's nightmare in the 21st century; for war is claimed to be the way to peace and nuclear weapons are promised as the way to provide security.
The U.S. Army's Intelligence Analysis of the 2004 Fallujah Attack
By Stephen Soldz
During the first week of April, insurgents invited a reporter from Al Jazeera, Ahmed Mansour, and his film crew into Fallujah where they filmed scenes of dead babies from the hospital, presumably killed by Coalition air strikes. Comparisons were made to the Palestinian Intifada. Children were shown bespattered with blood; mothers were shown screaming and mourning "
Riots break out in aftermath of Bhutto's death
Chaos has broken out in major cities in Pakistan, including the garrison city of Rawalpindi, after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, chairperson of Pakistan People's Party.
Pakistan: Al-Qaeda claims Bhutto's death
A spokesperson for the al-Qaeda terrorist network has claimed responsibility for the death on Thursday of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
Opposition leader's assassination 'moves us closer' to potential nuclear apocalypse, expert says
Bush condemns Bhutto killing amid civil war fears
The UN security council today called an emergency meeting amid warnings that the assassination of Benazir Bhutto could push Pakistan into civil war.
Syrian MP threatens attack on Dimona
"If Syria feels threatened by Israel, it will be hard to stop our missile operators from responding to the Israeli aggression by attacking the Dimona nuclear reactor," Syrian legislator Muhammad Habash was quoted as saying Saturday.
Airport profilers: They're watching your expressions
If a pair of Transportation Security Administration officers strolling by a Sea-Tac Airport ticket counter wish you happy holidays and ask where you're traveling, it might be more than just Christmas spirit.
Travelers at Sea-Tac and dozens of other major airports across America are being scrutinized by teams of TSA behavior-detection officers specially trained to discern the subtlest suspicious behaviors.
Researchers aim to predict the unpredictable
Researchers at the University of Arizona in Tucson have now begun work on a set of computer algorithms that may be able to make sense of mountains of intelligence data that would overwhelm human analysts. Known as the Asymmetric Threat Response and Analysis Project, or ATRAP, the effort is aimed at dispassionately sifting through everything from fingerprints to cultural influences to establish useful links and connections.
Neocon-Lite Sen. Mikulski Sets Dems’ Cynical Agenda
You could see it coming a block away! I’m talking about the Democrats’ cynical gambit for capturing the White House in 2008! It goes like this: Let the Iraq War drag on and on, with our brave troops dying daily in combat, and/or sustaining serious injuries; but, don’t do anything to stop the funding for the conflict. Then, blame the horrific results of the war on our Uber-President, George W. Bush! (Keep in mind that this is the war which ex-Lt. Gen. William E. Odom has labeled: “The greatest strategic mistake in our history.”) Leave it to Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD), Neocon-Lite herself, to lead that deceitful campaign. In a front page spiel for the Baltimore Examiner, on Dec. 24, 2007, she laid out the anti-Bush themes that Democratic operatives will be mouthing, ad nauseam, in 2008. Sen. Mikulski, of course, left out the fact that she, along with many of her cronies, have been complicit in many of the wrongdoings of the Bush-Cheney Gang.
Ron Paul Supporters Teach New York Times A Valuable Lesson
Pity the poor New York Times. Buffeted by scandals of plagiarism, made-up stories, outright government war-propaganda-mongering, and collapsing readership / stock price, the sometime crypto-apologist for Stalinism, and august house organ of the Eastern Establishment now has to contend with the rising presidential candidacy of a real Jeffersonian republican, Ron Paul.
Old media hits the skids as new models roil market
NY Town Lets Seniors Work to Pay Taxes
New York Times issues appology for their Ron Paul hit piece, that they claimed linked Paul to White Supremacist
Iranian Jews slam 'emigrant stunt'
The well-publicized landing of 40 Iranian Jews in Israel on Tuesday spurred glee among some Israelis and the immigrants themselves and drew public scorn from a surprising quarter in Iran two officials from its centuries-old Jewish community.
One of them described the emigration as a "misinformation" campaign and defended their lives under the government of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Housing woes reshape USA
The housing slump and mortgage crisis are reshaping population flows across the nation even in the booming states of the Southwest, according to an analysis of Census estimates released today.
Israeli building plan clouds talks
An Israeli building programme planned for East Jerusalem is set to overshadow a meeting between Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Last month, Israel announced tenders for 307 new apartments in Har Homa, part of a ring of settlements built on confiscated Palestinian land in east Jerusalem.
Delay on North Korean Nuclear Plan
North Korea is likely to miss a year-end deadline to declare all of its nuclear activities and disable its main nuclear site, the South Korean foreign minister said on Thursday.
Pakistan's Bhutto assassinated in gun, bomb attack
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on Thursday in a gun and bomb attack as she left an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi. Police said a suicide bomber fired shots at Bhutto as she was leaving the rally venue in a park before blowing himself up.
Bush’s Tyranny Thwarted — For Now
By Sheldon Richman
Kansas GOP Chair Sends Email Boasting of Voter Caging
Kris Kobach, a former counsel to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft who is currently the chairman of the Kansas GOP, sent out an email on Thur entitled “Kansas Republican Party Year in Review” in which he brags of voter caging.Did we mention it’s illegal? And that Kris Kobach is proud to be doing it?
Iran to seek bids for 19 atomic power plants
The Torture Tape Cover-up: How High Does It Go?
By Prof. Marjorie Cohn
US report: Israel would weather nuclear war with Iran
All out nuclear war between Israel and Iran: a doomsday scenario that we all fear deeply. A new study compiled by the US Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), headed by former Pentagon analyst Anthony H. Cordesman, explored just such a nightmare scenario, noting that it could lead to the death of between 16- 28 million Iranian civilians, and 200-800 thousand Israelis.
Ron Paul: Real Conservatives Don't Start Wars, They End Them
"I think their definitions are different," he said. "Today, the Party has been taken over by a group called neoconservatives, and I don't believe they're really conservative. I think they're really liberal in the modern sense of the word--they're big spenders, they believe in entitlements, they believe in military adventurism."
Saudis biggest group of al Qaeda Iraq fighters-study
Home prices post record annual drop
Prices of existing U.S. single-family homes recorded their biggest annual drop in October, suggesting the housing slump is far from over, a national home price gauge released on Wednesday showed.
GQ Men of the Year 2007
We've chosen presidential candidate Ron Paul in GQ's December Men of the Year issue, on stands nationwide on November 27th. Here's why.
Washington sure seems like a town full of bullies sometimes. Along comes a 72-year-old physician from south Texas who weighs maybe 140 pounds with rocks in his pockets, whom most people, at the beginning of the year, couldn't have picked out of a two-person lineup, who took in barely enough first-quarter money to buy a fancy Italian car, who comes armed with ideas both misbegotten (Abolish the Fed!) and very much not (End this war! Stop indefinitely detaining human beings!), and what do the folks who run the Republican Party do? They try to silence him
Follow Huckabee’s Money
I read in Robert Novak’s column this morning that Mike Huckabee held a fundraiser earlier this week at the Houston home of Dr. Steven Hotze. As Novak notes, Hotze is “a leader in the highly conservative Christian Reconstruction movement.”
Christian Reconstructionists, for those unfamiliar with the term, are Religious Right radicals who believe that America, and the rest of the world besides, should be governed in accordance with strict Biblical law. And yes, that includes stoning adulterers. Here’s a snippet from “A Manifesto for the Christian Church,” a 1986 document from an outfit called the Coalition on Revival that was signed by, among others, Steven Hotze
Russia to Deliver S-300 Missile System to Iran
Iran signed a contract with Russia Tuesday night on the purchase of an advanced missile system called S-300, Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said here on Wednesday.
US braces for baby boom retirement wave
The first of the vast US baby boom generation goes into retirement in January, setting off a demographic tidal wave with wide-ranging economic, political and social implications.
Legal analyst: In wrong hands, FBI biometric info 'can follow you forever'
A newly announced FBI plan to catalog precise physical characteristics of individuals around the world a vast $1 billion dollar project that makes the bureau's fingerprint database look quaint by comparison is raising eyebrows among critics who worry about how the data may be used.
Gore Vidal: Ron Paul gains, Neocons weaker, Kucinich left out (Video)
Bush backs Turkish strikes on Kurdish rebels
US President George Bush has spoken with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip and gave his backing for military strikes by Ankara on Kurdish rebel rear bases in Iraq.
Police academy class slogan: Cause PTSD
Each class at the Idaho Police Officer Standards and Training Academy is allowed to choose a slogan that is printed on its graduation programs, and the class of 43 graduates came up with "Don't suffer from PTSD, go out and cause it." A state police academy leader has disavowed the slogan of the most recent graduating class, urging one another to "go out and cause" post-traumatic stress disorder.
Panel would target homegrown terror
A commission proposed by key senators would study the emergence of homegrown terrorists and how U.S. citizens become radicalized through ideologies to commit acts of violence.
